Combined trading volume across Kalshi and Polymarket fell 14.5% in August to $45.33B, the first monthly decline in a year as the post-World Cup betting surge faded — The Block

Remixpoint, Japan's second-largest DAT after Metaplanet, sold its entire altcoin book (ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE) for about ¥879M ($6M) on September 1 to go Bitcoin-only, and now holds roughly 1,506 BTC — WuBlockchain

Variational launched its first onchain swap markets for gold (XAU) and the Nasdaq 100 (US100), sourcing liquidity from TradFi and swapping volatile funding for stable carry rates with zero trading fees — Variational

Securitize (NYSE: SECZ) and Socios.com are partnering to tokenize regulated minority equity stakes in pro sports teams, branded Socios Equity Tokens and launching under the EU DLT Pilot Regime — PR Newswire

World open-sourced ProveKit, a zero-knowledge toolkit that lets people prove facts like age or nationality from their own phone without exposing the underlying ID, with 128-bit post-quantum security and no trusted setup — The Block

Payward, the parent of crypto exchange Kraken, delayed its US IPO to the second quarter of 2027 at the earliest, citing weak crypto listing markets, after pausing the process in March at a cut $13.3B valuation — CoinDesk

Jupiter launched Universal Deposit, letting users send any token from any chain and receive USDC in their Solana wallet for a flat $0.30 fee, collapsing bridging and swapping into a single step — Jupiter

Tether's QVAC unit open-sourced TranslatePsy-AfriSLM, free offline AI translating 19 African languages fully on-device, each language pair just 21-35 MB — Tether

Standard Chartered launched institutional Bitcoin and Ether spot trading in the UAE via its DIFC arm, a first for a major global bank in the region — Reuters

A proposed $500M class action accuses Ledger of letting data leaks enable scammers to impersonate its staff, draining $1.95M from one user's wallet — crypto.news

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model yet: it can run a computer autonomously and tops agent, science and cybersecurity benchmarks — OpenAI

OpenReserve, the a16z-backed blockchain-native bank, won preliminary OCC approval for a full-service national bank charter, conditioned on $210M in initial capital — The Block

BNB Chain opened a multi-week rewards campaign putting $4M in BNB behind bStocks-paired tokens, with a $400K first-week pool split via a HODLer Index through Sept 12 — BNB Chain

Robinhood Chain has stalled: its official Blockscout explorer shows block timestamps frozen near 12:46 UTC, with the network no longer advancing in real time — Robinhood Chain Explorer

Anthropic's Claude produced the first machine-verified proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, working autonomously for 11 days across 13 million lines of Lean code — Anthropic

WooX users report withdrawals stuck for three days with no word from the exchange, stoking contagion fears after BitMart's founder joined its new parent's committee — Odaily

Tether-backed Chilean exchange Orionx is shutting down and has frozen withdrawals after a forensic audit found over $7M in customer assets moved to wallets outside its control — WuBlockchain

Bitcoin sidechain Liquid Network paused after about 4,200 BTC (~$320M) left in one coordinated peg-out, with the movers leaving an on-chain note claiming to be white hats — The Block

Harmony will sunset its Layer 1 and airdrop new ONE to holders on Ethereum, redirecting emissions to a new AI video remix project, with validators free to stop from Sept 10 — The Block

Binance opened early access to Binance AI, a new in-app assistant now in beta, offering a personalized interface, AI market insights across crypto and TradFi, and a concise signal feed — Binance

Cari, a bank-governed tokenized deposit network led by ex-US Comptroller Gene Ludwig, raised $32.5M entirely from seven US banks including KeyBank, M&T and Huntington — Ledger Insights